DNASTAR Lasergene Core Suite (DEPRECATED - Will be removed 1/26/2018)

NOTE: MSI has discontinued its support of Lasergene software, and will be uninstalling it from all systems on January 26, 2018. MSI understands that you may have questions about this decision, which we have attempted to answer below.

Why has MSI discontinued Lasergene support?The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute seeks to provide researchers at the University of Minnesota access to high-performance computing resources and user support to facilitate successful and innovative research in all disciplines. While MSI recognizes that Lasergene is an important tool for many biology labs on campus it is meant to be used in a personal computing environment, it does not need substantial computing power and duplicates the functionality of many of the free open source packages that we host.

DNASTAR is in the process of negotiating a term license that would cost $600/year for all their local client based tools if there is sufficient interest. Please contact brian@dnastar.com for more information.

Will Lasergene continue to be accessible?As of 1/26/2018 Lasergene is no longer accessible through MSI.

What is replacing Lasergene?MSI is not purchasing a specific replacement for the Lasergene software. However, much of the functionality that Lasergene supplies is present in open source, industry standard tools such as GATK, IGV and BWA/Bowtie.